Eric Rush: President Obama plans to brand Christians as suffering from a mental disorder

In May of this year the APA (American Psychiatric Association) will release its fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which will supersede the DSM-IV, last revised in 2000. These manuals are essentially the yardstick for what is and what is not “mental illness” in America.

Now, while the APA is the premier psychiatric association in America, driving what passes for all conventional wisdom with regard to mental illness, in recent years it has been accused of being more agenda-driven than representing hard, scientific and medical assessments of mental disorders. Decidedly liberal-leaning, in recent decades it has essentially redefined such things as homosexuality, gender identification disorder, and pedophilia to reflect what pressure groups and the liberal intelligentsia wish, rather than continuing to describe them as psychologically aberrant.

One begins to see how having such a biased organization whimsically defining and re-defining mental illness in light of recent political developments might be, shall we say, troublesome to say the very least.

Finally, we have the political left’s intense derision for Christianity, and this most definitely includes Obama. Despite having passed himself off as a Christian in the eyes of the grotesquely ignorant, it is clear that he is functionally an atheist. Many argue that he is in fact a Muslim; my belief is that while he holds a marked affinity for Muslims, he is far too narcissistic to deign worshipping anything other than himself. More than anything else, he is a Marxist.

Along with his disdain for European society and what Obama perceives as the vestiges of imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy (which includes America), he also despises that which gave rise to it, which serves as its cultural adhesive, and which stands as the chief impediment to a Marxist America: Christianity.

So, what new diagnoses, designations, and revisions might be included in the DSM-5? We won’t know for certain until May, but given the history of the APA, I believe Americans have reason to be afraid. I believe that we shall see an increasing incidence of sinister provisions in Obamacare coming to light, and conflict within the medical and legal communities as to the government’s latitude in these areas.

In the case of those who pose the most dire threat to Obama’s designs – Christians – these will certainly be targeted. After all, who more demonstrably epitomizes mental instability in the eyes of the Marxist atheist than those who commune with and rely upon that which is unseen? To the Marxist, God is no more real than Elwood’s “Harvey,” and even more antiquated than the Constitution.

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In all honesty, I would not object to any attempt to label right wing nuts as suffering from a mental disorder.

6. President Obama is a Christian, so have no fears the lions are waiting.

/shoves Carl Marx back into it's grave.

The military has a defination of mental illness and has used that to remove gun ownership from some of our returning military. The Gov. will probably use that same system to not allow some persons with medical conditions to own guns. That is already the law, part of what gun sellers ignore because there is no regulation.
It's really wrong to tell Christians that our President will make a target of any religious group.

16. I don't like the words "mental illness". There are variations in how things work, some variations

are plus or minus around an average, others are further away from that average, still others more extreme, and others still even more extreme.

Some patterns of variation can be more strongly corelated to certain cohorts, but just looking at those variations in brain maps doesn't tell you very much about causes, but one thing you'd for sure have to do, to begin to say anything definitive about possible authentic pathologies would be to identify those variances that cannot be ameliorated by more situational factors like social contexts, for example that associated with some churches and not others, economic rewards and punishers, ignorance, fear, substance abuse . . . .

There's tons of stuff that can look like what people refer to as "mental illness" but, where it might not be wholly determined by situational factors, enough situation stuff can have strong enough of an effect that a variation that wouldn't be a problem in other circumstances becomes what other people say is a mental illness in that context.